This Week in Science

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Science 23 August 1996: 1023.
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Editorial:
Mortgaging Science's Future

Alan G. Kraut
Science 23 August 1996: 1027-0.
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 Sciencescope|

Science 23 August 1996: 1035-0.
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 Random Samples| Sociology's "Biophobia" * Dutch Cats Killed by Chicken Mix * MEDLINE Back on Track * Fish Fans Beware * The Brain as Orchestra * NO Linked to Malaria Immune Response

Science 23 August 1996: 1049-1051.
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 Book Reviews| Why Things Bite Back, reviewed by L. Winner * Prion Diseases, P. Gambetti * Prions Prions Prions * Books Received

Science 23 August 1996: 1052-1053.
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 Products & Materials|

Science 23 August 1996: 1115-1116.
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News and Comment

Institutional Profile: Salk: Under New Management

Jon Cohen
Science 23 August 1996: 1036-1037.
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Earth Science: New Satellite Puts Japan in Top Tier of Remote Sensing

Dennis Normile
Science 23 August 1996: 1038-0.
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Polymerase Chain Reaction: Promega Wins Round in Fight Over Taq

Marcia Barinaga
Science 23 August 1996: 1039-0.
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Russian Science: Fortov Named to New Post; Saltykov Out

Andrey Allakhverdov and Vladimir Pokrosky
Science 23 August 1996: 1039-0.
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 Mars Missions: 2003 Is Earliest To Retrieve Samples

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 23 August 1996: 1040-0.
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Whistle-Blowing: More Monkey Business Alleged at NYU

Richard Stone
Science 23 August 1996: 1040-0.
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Mars Missions: 2003 Is Earliest to Retrieve Samples

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 23 August 1996: 1040-1041.
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Space Science: Return to Mercury

Helen Gavaghan
Science 23 August 1996: 1041-0.
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Space Science: All Eyes on the Magnetosphere

Helen Gavaghan
Science 23 August 1996: 1042-0.
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Research News

Genetics: Life's Last Domain

Virginia Morell
Science 23 August 1996: 1043-1045.
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Ecology: Exploring Biodiversity's Benefits

Elizabeth Culotta
Science 23 August 1996: 1045-1046.
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Physics: Getting Familiar With the Top Quark

James Glanz
Science 23 August 1996: 1046-0.
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Mathematics: Lattices May Put Security Codes on a Firmer Footing

Barry Cipra
Science 23 August 1996: 1047-1048.
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Planetary Science: Galileo Gazes at Jupiter and Its Moons

Gretchen Vogel
Science 23 August 1996: 1048-0.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 23 August 1996: 1029-1032.
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 "Environmental Estrogens"

Arthur M. Shapiro
Science 23 August 1996: 1029-1032.
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 German Education

Wolfgang Zeman;, Stuart Brody;, and Manfred Philipp
Science 23 August 1996: 1029-1032.
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 Turbulence Hits Wall

Charles Sleicher; and Anthony E. Perry
Science 23 August 1996: 1029-1032.
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 California Civil Rights: Stealth Clause

Lucy Johns
Science 23 August 1996: 1029-1032.
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 Streetcar Theory and Long-Term Evolution

Peter Hammerstein
Science 23 August 1996: 1029-1032.
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 German Education

Manfred Philipp
Science 23 August 1996: 1030.
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 Turbulence Hits Wall

Charles Sleicher
Science 23 August 1996: 1030-1031.
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 Turbulence Hits Wall

Anthony E. Perry
Science 23 August 1996: 1031.
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 California Civil Rights: Stealth Clause

Lucy Johns
Science 23 August 1996: 1031-1032.
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 Streetcar Theory and Long-Term Evolution

Peter Hammerstein
Science 23 August 1996: 1032.
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Books et al.

 Bad Surprises: Why Things Bite Back.

Langdon Winner
Science 23 August 1996: 1052.
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 Approaches to Prions: Prion Diseases.

Pierluigi Gambetti
Science 23 August 1996: 1052-1053.
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 More on Prions: Prions Prions Prions.

Katherine Livingston
Science 23 August 1996: 1053.
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 Books Received

Science 23 August 1996: 1053.
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Perspectives

Volcanic Dilemma--Flow or Blow?

D. B. Dingwell
Science 23 August 1996: 1054-1055.
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An Excellent Lightness

Thomas D. Albright
Science 23 August 1996: 1055-1056.
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Small Nucleolar RNAs Guide Ribosomal RNA Methylation

David Tollervey
Science 23 August 1996: 1056-1057.
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Articles

Complete Genome Sequence of the Methanogenic Archaeon, Methanococcus jannaschii

Carol J. Bult, Owen White, Gary J. Olsen, Lixin Zhou, Robert D. Fleischmann, Granger G. Sutton, Judith A. Blake, Lisa M. FitzGerald, Rebecca A. Clayton, Jeannine D. Gocayne, Anthony R. Kerlavage, Brian A. Dougherty, Jean-Francois Tomb, Mark D. Adams, Claudia I. Reich, Ross Overbeek, Ewen F. Kirkness, Keith G. Weinstock, Joseph M. Merrick, Anna Glodek, John L. Scott, Neil S. M. Geoghagen, Janice F. Weidman, Joyce L. Fuhrmann, Dave Nguyen, Teresa R. Utterback, Jenny M. Kelley, Jeremy D. Peterson, Paul W. Sadow, Michael C. Hanna, Matthew D. Cotton, Kevin M. Roberts, Margaret A. Hurst, Brian P. Kaine, Mark Borodovsky, Hans-Peter Klenk, Claire M. Fraser, Hamilton O. Smith, Carl R. Woese, and J. Craig Venter
Science 23 August 1996: 1058-1073.
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Research Articles

Universal Quantum Simulators

Seth Lloyd
Science 23 August 1996: 1073-1078.
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A Crosslinked Cofactor in Lysyl Oxidase: Redox Function for Amino Acid Side Chains

Sophie Xuefei Wang, Minae Mure, Katalin F. Medzihradszky, Alma L. Burlingame, Doreen E. Brown, David M. Dooley, Alan J. Smith, Herbert M. Kagan, and Judith P. Klinman
Science 23 August 1996: 1078-1084.
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Reports

Evidence for Supersonic Turbulence in the Upper Atmosphere of Jupiter

Claude Emerich, Lotfi Ben Jaffel, John T. Clarke, Renée Prangé, G. Randall Gladstone, Joel Sommeria, and Gilda Ballester
Science 23 August 1996: 1085-1087.
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Rapid Variations in Atmospheric Methane Concentration During the Past 110,000 Years

Edward J. Brook, Todd Sowers, and Joe Orchardo
Science 23 August 1996: 1087-1091.
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Late Pleistocene Desiccation of Lake Victoria and Rapid Evolution of Cichlid Fishes

Thomas C. Johnson, Christopher A. Scholz, Michael R. Talbot, Kerry Kelts, R. D. Ricketts, Gideon Ngobi, Kristina Beuning, Immacculate Ssemmanda, and J. W. McGill
Science 23 August 1996: 1091-1093.
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Simultaneous Measurement of Local Gain and Electron Density in X-ray Lasers

R. Cauble, L. B. Da Silva, T. W. Barbee, Jr., P. Celliers, C. Decker, R. A. London, J. C. Moreno, J. E. Trebes, A. S. Wan, and F. Weber
Science 23 August 1996: 1093-1096.
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BTK as a Mediator of Radiation-Induced Apoptosis in DT-40 Lymphoma B Cells

Fatih M. Uckun, Kevin G. Waddick, Sandeep Mahajan, Xiao Jun, Minoru Takata, Joseph Bolen, and Tomohiro Kurosaki
Science 23 August 1996: 1096-1100.
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Corticofugal Modulation of Time-Domain Processing of Biosonar Information in Bats

Jun Yan and Nobuo Suga
Science 23 August 1996: 1100-1103.
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The Representation of Brightness in Primary Visual Cortex

Andrew F. Rossi, Cynthia D. Rittenhouse, and Michael A. Paradiso
Science 23 August 1996: 1104-1107.
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Pilus Assembly by Agrobacterium T-DNA Transfer Genes

Karla Jean Fullner, J. Cano Lara, and Eugene W. Nester
Science 23 August 1996: 1107-1109.
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Role of Postreplicative DNA Mismatch Repair in the Cytotoxic Action of Thioguanine

Peter F. Swann, Timothy R. Waters, David C. Moulton, Yao-Zhong Xu, Qinguo Zheng, Mina Edwards, and Raymond Mace
Science 23 August 1996: 1109-1111.
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Selective Activation of Calcium Permeability by Aspartate in Purkinje Cells

Michisuke Yuzaki, Douglas Forrest, Tom Curran, and John A. Connor
Science 23 August 1996: 1112-1114.
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